Advanced modeling
What can Agent Based Modeling say about “incels”?
Poke at this modern dating concept in python.
Due to unfortunate events, a lot has been said and written about so called Incels, a concept now part of the manosphere / red pill dictionay. Interestingly, the story of the term “incel”, which I encourage you to learn about, is a story of unforeseen dynamics of a system that was set-up with static constraints in mind only. Unsurprisingly, it could have benefited from a little modeling. At the same time,
there aren’t enough conversations on agent-based modeling and simulated evolution, a rather exciting area of Machine Learning.
In short an entity (online forum) whose mission was to provide support to lonely and single individuals in order to get them out of a dire situation was formed — some sort of emergency homeless shelter of dating. What that meant is that the whole premise of the system was to get people out of the system, which is only sustainable if the influx of new members is big enough. As it was neither a charity nor a for-profit enterprise, this entity was self-moderated, which meant that those maintaining the system over time were the very members that failed to learn how to get out…
